Can anyone please tell me where dynamic proxies (the bytecode) generated by the Spring framework are stored/held?
On the filesystem? In memory?
Can anyone please tell me where dynamic proxies (the bytecode) generated by the Spring framework are stored/held?
On the filesystem? In memory?
It is in memory - there is no bytecode enhancement of the class, but essentially a wrapper is created which intercepts all method calls to the wrapped class and delegates the calls to an InvocationHandler .
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Proxy.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/InvocationHandler.html